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say it: thee-AH-kruh-see
theocracy is a noun meaning "a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)". It is pronounced /θiˈɑkɹəsi/ — thee-AH-kruh-see. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
the belief in government by divine guidance
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for theocracy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.